Archive for January 2013

Ratings Change: Steve Cunningham debuts at #7 off a “loss” to Tomasz Adamek. To be perfectly honest aside from the top 4 this division is wide open, but unfortunately most of the people outside of the top 10 fight no-hopers rather than each other. Consequently Chris Arreola vs Bermane Stiverne is the most looked forward to signed heavyweight fight of 2013 thus far… Adamek has been catching a lot of breaks lately, but at least he fights the best. Easy for these other heavyweights out there to look good fighting nobody. Also, it looks like #2 Vitali Klitschko and #4 David Haye may never fight again…

No Ratings Change
Jean Pascal, who wasn’t rated due to inactivity, recently defeated Aleksy Kuziemski but wasn’t impressive. My opinion of Kuziemski is too low to merit a rating for beating him. But fortunately for Pascal all he has to do is beat Chad Dawson again and he’s at the top of the mountain…

Ratings Change: Juan Manuel Marquez assumes the top spot following his sensational knockout of Manny Pacquiao. Marquez passes previously #1 Tim Bradley on the basis that his win over Pacquiao was far more impressive. Previously #8 Carson Jones drops from the ratings due to his entirely legitimate draw with Dean Byrne. I mean no disrespect to Dean, who fought a smart fight. Those bouts can be viewed here if you’re looking for them. In any event, everyone from Robert Guerrero to Andre Berto fell one spot while Jan Zaveck and Paul Malignaggi remained at #9 and #10 respectively. Floyd Mayweather is unrated due to inactivity in this division but should be back once his next fight comes off. At the moment Mayweather is rated at Junior Middleweight. Victor Ortiz is unrated because no one knows when or if he’ll ever fight again.